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| US Paper Money - 1928 Fifty Dollar Gold Certificate |
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| United States fifty-dollar bill |
1928 50 Dollar Gold Certificate
Obverse: Portrait of Ulysses Grant (18th U.S. President)
Signatures:
Walter Orr Woods, Treasurer of the United States and
Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury.
Reverse: Vignette of the U.S. Capitol showing the east front. “The United States of America Fifty Dollars”
1928 saw the last issuance of Gold Certificates to the public prior to their confiscation during the Great Depression.
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). As commanding general, Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War, which ended shortly after Robert E. Lee surrendered to him at Appomattox in 1865. After the war, Grant served as commanding general, implementing Congressional Reconstruction, often at odds with President Andrew Johnson. Twice elected president, Grant led the Radical Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protect African-American citizenship, and defeat the Ku Klux Klan.
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